Amateur astronomers can use NASA's mobile app to find the ACS3 for themselves—a reflective satellite that could appear as ...

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo.

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, has been fully deployed in orbit, according to the administration, and ...

NASA's app allows skygazers to track sightings of the solar sail from their location, providing the direction of the sky it ...

NASA has successfully extended into orbit an 80 m 2 (860 square foot) sail that is designed to catch emissions from the Sun ...

Four months after it blasted off into space, Nasa's solar spacecraft has spread it's sails - and now you can spot it from ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

Those who do catch a glimpse of the solar sail as it passes overhead can share their experience with the #SpotTheSail hashtag ...

Centuries after it was first theorised, the sunlight propulsion method could herald a new era of space exploration ...

Now that its reflective sail has deployed fully open in orbit, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System can be seen in the ...

Top Spin A solar sail is designed to use the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight to propel a spacecraft to ...

N ASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is a brand-new technology demonstration of solar sailing. The space agency is ...